Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month

[theatreguy]

Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month#1

Posted: 6/1/11 at 12:33am

I guess this makes it officially official?

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2011 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to eliminate prejudice everywhere it exists, and to celebrate the great diversity of the American people.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/31/presidential-proclamation-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-mon
Updated On: 6/1/11 at 12:33 AM

[fingerlakessinger]

Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month#2

Posted: 6/1/11 at 12:54am

You know..Obama may not be the perfect President (I dont think anyone ever could be) and he made some errors that made me quite angry at him, but this dude really knows how to bring people together. The GOP can really learn somin from him.

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[fingerlakessinger]

Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month#2

Posted: 6/1/11 at 12:54am

You know..Obama may not be the perfect President (I dont think anyone ever could be) and he made some errors that made me quite angry at him, but this dude really knows how to bring people together. The GOP can really learn somin from him.

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[adamgreer]

Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month#3

Posted: 6/1/11 at 7:28am

Does this mean he'll, you know, actually do something for the cause this month?

[AC126748]

Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month#4

Posted: 6/1/11 at 6:13pm

I was thinking the exact same thing, Adam.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[FosseBoi]

Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month#5

Posted: 6/1/11 at 6:16pm

Yeah thats nice and all but I'd also like to pose adamgreer's question.

"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread. ~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line

[PalJoey]

Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month#6

Posted: 6/1/11 at 6:59pm

And the White House also launched an LGBT microsite:

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/white-house-launches-winning-the-future-website-dedicated-to-obama-progress-on-lgbt-rights.html#comments

[canmark]

Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month#7

Posted: 6/1/11 at 8:56pm

Interesting that there is a White House staff "It Gets Better" video. Well done. http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2010/12/20/white-house-staff-it-gets-better

Note: in addition to LGBT month, the President also declared it African-American Music Appreciation Month, National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, and Great Outdoors Month. So let's listen to some hip hop and eat some jerk chicken while in the great outdoors. 'Cause June is bustin' OUT all over!

Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)

Updated On: 6/1/11 at 08:56 PM

[tazber]

Obama proclaims June 2011 LGBT Pride Month#8

Posted: 6/2/11 at 7:56am

He has declared June "everything-that-doesn't-already-have-an-official-month month".

....but the world goes 'round